How did you become an adult? Any advice to impart?
How did you get your first job? Apartment/house? Dating?
I ask because I really only did so after years of bouncing around from colleges, summer abroad programs, living with friends, and really just use Zillow or StreetEasy to look.
(I also ask because I want a distraction from the world that isn't entertainment or documentary/non-fiction and often daydream about what things I could have done different had I known things - real life skills - earlier.)
That last paragraph you wrote reminded of that page from Flowers for Algernon, where the father defends his son Charlie from his mother.
Matt - the father - loved his son and accepted him regardless of his disabilities.
We should all be grateful we are not divorced from love, even if just as a concept of it, as Emily May is.